Folios 236-237: John Tremayne Rodd, HMS Warrior, Spithead. He encloses a letter from...

Folios 236-237: John Tremayne Rodd, HMS Warrior, Spithead. He encloses a letter from Midshipman Mr Osborn Young currently serving on HMS Warrior. He asks that the Admiralty dispense with the need for his Certificate of Age as his parents are now dead and he does not know in which parish he was born. Captain Rodd has interrogated him and believes him to be telling the truth.

Folios 238-239: enclosure to folios 236-237. A Report on the deficient Certificate of Age on behalf of Mr Osborn Young whose letter has been transmitted to Captain Rodd dated 9 November 1814. The document sets out the procedure for examinations for Midshipmen which required them to produce a baptismal certificate. On rare occasions this requirement has been dispensed with. It is suggested that something equivalent might serve and the suggestion is that if he had been baptised, his sponsors at the time might be asked for statements and that evidence, together with a record of the ships on which he has served, might suffice.

Folios 240-241: enclosure to folios 236-237. Letter from Osborn Young to Captain Rodd, HMS Warrior, Spithead dated 6 November 1814. He writes that he is unable to produce a Certificate of Age. He sayes his birthday is 1 July 1790 but because his mother died when he was very young and his father, also now dead, was a ship's surgeon and always at sea, he knows no details of his birth. He asks for a dispensing order for the Certificate of Age.